Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach mentioned that banks are doing away with their books and are going down the ATM route. That is fine. It is an internal matter for the banks themselves and that is business. Should the Government be facilitating the banks by forcing people to switch from using cheques to ATM cards if they do not wish to do so? The Government is effectively doubling the charge to facilitate the banks. It is as simple as that and the Taoiseach is not comparing like with like. Should the Government put penal charges on people that can ill afford them, purely to facilitate the banks?

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